Hello,
I have problem in wifi card on my laptop(thinkpad sl500) with fedora 14.
Description of problem:
1,switch wifi hardware button off and boot up FC14, after login NM-applet enable wireless greyed out. Switch hw button on doesn't help.
2,wifi hardware button is on and boot up FC14, after login everything is fine.click NM-applet "enable wireless" to disable wireless and switch hw button off, and then click NM-applet to re-enable wireless.after that, just like situation 1, NM-applet enable wireless greyed out and switch hw button on doesn't help.
Here are some details:
Code:
$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 14 (Laughlin)
$ uname -a
Linux XXX.XXX 2.6.35.14-106.fc14.i686 #1 SMP Wed Nov 23 13:57:33 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
$ lspci -v
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
Subsystem: Atheros Communications Inc. Device 0035
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at fd9f0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ath5k
Kernel modules: ath5k
$ lsmod |sort
arc4 1085 2
asus_laptop 12297 0
ath5k 143229 0
ath 7149 1 ath5k
cfg80211 110999 3 ath5k,mac80211,ath
crc_itu_t 1235 1 firewire_core
drm 139248 3 i915,drm_kms_helper
drm_kms_helper 22278 1 i915
ecb 1595 2
fat 38070 1 vfat
firewire_core 37909 1 firewire_ohci
firewire_ohci 17801 0
fuse 51923 5
i2c_algo_bit 4197 1 i915
i2c_core 21552 4 i915,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit
i915 242784 3
ip6table_filter 1207 1
ip6_tables 9937 1 ip6table_filter
ip6t_REJECT 3470 2
ipv6 229795 14 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6
iTCO_vendor_support 2070 1 iTCO_wdt
iTCO_wdt 8960 0
joydev 7306 0
mac80211 188772 1 ath5k
microcode 11149 0
mii 3578 1 r8169
mmc_core 53226 1 sdhci
Module Size Used by
mtd 15282 2 sm_common,nand
nand 28994 2 r852,sm_common
nand_ecc 3460 1 nand
nand_ids 2730 1 nand
nf_conntrack_ipv6 14441 3
nls_utf8 1041 2
output 1625 1 video
p4_clockmod 3159 0
r8169 31837 0
r852 8298 0
rfkill 13652 2 cfg80211,asus_laptop
sdhci 15709 1 sdhci_pci
sdhci_pci 6254 0
serio_raw 3589 0
sm_common 3104 1 r852
snd 47397 13 snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_hda_codec 71701 3 snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec_conexant 31906 1
snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi 8713 1
snd_hda_intel 20163 2
snd_hwdep 4795 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_page_alloc 6180 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_pcm 61769 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_seq 43435 0
snd_seq_device 5056 1 snd_seq
snd_timer 15435 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
soundcore 5088 1 snd
sparse_keymap 2472 1 asus_laptop
uinput 5228 0
vfat 6758 1
video 17730 1 i915
and now when I try to activate the wifi I got the rfkill error message :
Code:
$ ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-kill
the wlan NIC is hard blocked :
Code:
$ rfkill list
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
If I try to unblock it, it doesn't work :
Code:
$ rfkill unblock all
$ rfkill list
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
After switch hw button on and reload ath5k module, it work:
Code:
$ modprobe -r ath5k
$ modprobe ath5k
I'm sure it not use to work like this, no matter wifi hardware button is on or off, the NM-applet enable wireless never greyed out.
Would really appreciate some help regarding this!Sorry for my broken English.
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